Continuous Integration Contracts with Work from Home Options

Continuous Integration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Continuous Integration skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 115 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 -26 -4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 233 527 1,267
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 2.14% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.39% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 395 816
10th Percentile £360 £450 £413
25th Percentile £438 £494 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £583 £581
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +0.34% +16.20%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.00% +14.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 11
10th Percentile - £55.50 £49.00
25th Percentile - £64.75 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +20.00% +30.18%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £67.88
90th Percentile - £73.60 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Continuous Integration is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Continuous Integration
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Continuous Integration trend for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration.

Continuous Integration daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Continuous Integration daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Continuous Integration.

Continuous Integration hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Continuous Integration
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (11.16%) Confluence
2 16 (6.87%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.00%) CMS
4 5 (2.15%) JBoss
5 4 (1.72%) Apache
5 4 (1.72%) Luigi
6 3 (1.29%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.86%) IIS
7 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.86%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.43%) CICS
8 1 (0.43%) GemFire
8 1 (0.43%) nginx
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.91%) Azure
2 79 (33.91%) AWS
3 35 (15.02%) GCP
4 31 (13.30%) GitHub
5 27 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.01%) IaaS
7 13 (5.58%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (3.86%) PaaS
9 9 (3.86%) Serverless
10 8 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (3.43%) SaaS
11 7 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.58%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.58%) Nutanix
12 6 (2.58%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.73%) TCP/IP
2 14 (6.01%) Firewall
3 13 (5.58%) DNS
4 8 (3.43%) DHCP
4 8 (3.43%) VPN
5 7 (3.00%) VLAN
6 6 (2.58%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.58%) NAS
6 6 (2.58%) SAN
7 5 (2.15%) HTTP
8 2 (0.86%) SSL
9 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.43%) LTE
9 1 (0.43%) Network Security
9 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.43%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.73%) Relational Database
3 17 (7.30%) MySQL
4 15 (6.44%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.15%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.29%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.86%) Big Data
7 9 (3.86%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (3.00%) Delta Lake
8 7 (3.00%) Redis
9 6 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.15%) Couchbase
10 5 (2.15%) DB2
10 5 (2.15%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 74 (31.76%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.32%) Git
3 47 (20.17%) JIRA
4 45 (19.31%) GitLab
5 21 (9.01%) Selenium
6 18 (7.73%) Postman
7 16 (6.87%) JMeter
8 15 (6.44%) Cucumber
9 14 (6.01%) Cypress.io
9 14 (6.01%) SonarQube
10 13 (5.58%) Bitbucket
11 12 (5.15%) TeamCity
12 11 (4.72%) REST Assured
12 11 (4.72%) TestRail
13 8 (3.43%) Appium
13 8 (3.43%) Artifactory
13 8 (3.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (3.00%) Visual Studio
15 6 (2.58%) JUnit
General
1 70 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.61%) Finance
3 28 (12.02%) Banking
4 25 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.01%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.43%) Back Office
7 8 (3.43%) Retail
8 7 (3.00%) Law
8 7 (3.00%) Police
9 6 (2.58%) Corporate Banking
9 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.58%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.15%) Front Office
11 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.86%) Military
14 1 (0.43%) Games
14 1 (0.43%) Legal
14 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (24.89%) Developer
2 39 (16.74%) Senior
3 19 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (7.30%) Lead
5 15 (6.44%) Analyst
5 15 (6.44%) Architect
5 15 (6.44%) Senior Developer
5 15 (6.44%) Software Engineer
5 15 (6.44%) Test Analyst
6 14 (6.01%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.58%) React Developer
8 12 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.72%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.72%) Tester
10 9 (3.86%) Consultant
11 8 (3.43%) C# Developer
11 8 (3.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 7 (3.00%) QA Tester
12 7 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.00%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.59%) React
1 27 (11.59%) REST
2 24 (10.30%) .NET
2 24 (10.30%) Node.js
3 17 (7.30%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (6.44%) ARM Templates
4 15 (6.44%) XML
5 14 (6.01%) Kafka
5 14 (6.01%) RESTful
6 13 (5.58%) CSS
7 11 (4.72%) HTML
7 11 (4.72%) JSON
8 9 (3.86%) PySpark
8 9 (3.86%) SOAP
8 9 (3.86%) YAML
9 8 (3.43%) .NET Framework
9 8 (3.43%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.43%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.43%) Java EE
9 8 (3.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.01%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.86%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.43%) Clustering
4 6 (2.58%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.58%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.58%) Replication
5 5 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.29%) Wiki
8 2 (0.86%) CBDC
8 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.86%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.74%) Linux
2 32 (13.73%) Windows
3 9 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.43%) Solaris
4 8 (3.43%) Unix
4 8 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.58%) Android
5 6 (2.58%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.86%) AIX
7 2 (0.86%) VMS
7 2 (0.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (59.23%) Agile
2 123 (52.79%) CI/CD
3 107 (45.92%) DevOps
4 91 (39.06%) Test Automation
5 52 (22.32%) Continuous Deployment
6 51 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (21.89%) Software Engineering
7 49 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (19.74%) Scrum
9 41 (17.60%) Containerisation
10 39 (16.74%) Continuous Delivery
11 35 (15.02%) Analytics
12 33 (14.16%) Configuration Management
13 29 (12.45%) Microservices
14 27 (11.59%) Software Testing
14 27 (11.59%) TDD
15 24 (10.30%) Test Strategy
16 21 (9.01%) Deployment Automation
16 21 (9.01%) SDLC
17 20 (8.58%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 68 (29.18%) Python
2 43 (18.45%) SQL
3 34 (14.59%) Java
3 34 (14.59%) JavaScript
4 31 (13.30%) C#
5 24 (10.30%) PowerShell
6 23 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 21 (9.01%) Bash
8 10 (4.29%) Go
9 9 (3.86%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.86%) PHP
10 8 (3.43%) Perl
11 7 (3.00%) Bicep
12 6 (2.58%) C++
12 6 (2.58%) Ruby
12 6 (2.58%) Scala
13 3 (1.29%) C
13 3 (1.29%) COBOL
13 3 (1.29%) Groovy
13 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.44%) Degree
4 10 (4.29%) ISTQB
5 9 (3.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.86%) OCP
10 2 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.43%) CCNP
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) ISEB
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.43%) PMP
11 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.73%) QA
2 6 (2.58%) GDPR
2 6 (2.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) GxP
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (26.61%) Docker
2 12 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.29%) vCloud
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.29%) VirtualBox
4 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.29%) vSphere
4 3 (1.29%) zsh
5 2 (0.86%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.43%) GridGain
6 1 (0.43%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 55 (23.61%) Terraform
2 53 (22.75%) Kubernetes
3 46 (19.74%) Ansible
4 16 (6.87%) Progress Chef
5 14 (6.01%) Grafana
5 14 (6.01%) Prometheus
5 14 (6.01%) Puppet
6 12 (5.15%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (3.86%) Kibana
8 8 (3.43%) Podman
8 8 (3.43%) Tivoli
9 6 (2.58%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (2.58%) logstash
9 6 (2.58%) Netcool
9 6 (2.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.29%) Autotask
10 3 (1.29%) PowerCLI
10 3 (1.29%) Zipkin
11 2 (0.86%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.86%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 29 (12.45%) Oracle
2 24 (10.30%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.87%) Splunk
4 14 (6.01%) IBM
5 13 (5.58%) Google
6 12 (5.15%) EMC
7 11 (4.72%) VMware
8 9 (3.86%) Databricks
8 9 (3.86%) Dell
8 9 (3.86%) HP
9 6 (2.58%) Cisco
9 6 (2.58%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.58%) Isilon
9 6 (2.58%) Qualys
9 6 (2.58%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.58%) SAP
9 6 (2.58%) Serena
9 6 (2.58%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.15%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.72%) Denodo